Filled
by mobilisable personnel that had fulfilled their active-duty period in
A Company, 48
Armoured Infantry Battalion up to eight and a half years prior to mobilisation.2

c.

Filled
by mobilisable personnel that had fulfilled their active-duty period in
B
Company, 48
Armoured Infantry Battalion up to eight and a half years prior to mobilisation.2

d.

Filled
by mobilisable personnel from 436
Mobile Security Infantry Company (GRIM) after their fourteen
to sixteen-month RIM period in that unit had expired, up to eight and a half years prior to mobilisation.2 7

e.

Filled
by mobilisable personnel that had fulfilled their active-duty period in
435 Mobile Security Infantry Company up to eight and a half years prior to mobilisation.2

f.

A National Reserve (NATRES)
company staff would take three or more NATRES
platoons under command. Other platoons would operate under the
command of a security infantry company, or directly under
the Provincial Military Commander/Garrison Commander.3

g.

On mobilisation with
three NATRES platoons under command of COMNORTHAG for security
duties at the Joint Operations Centre (JOC) of NORTHAG/TWOATAF in
the Cannerberg hill, Maastricht (wartime location). Also under command would be
three of
the provisional security platoons listed under Part
III, which would be tasked with similar duties. In
the second half of the 1980s the company commander
would further receive a (conscript) Stinger platoon for this
mission, equipped
with
FIM-92 Stinger man-portable air defence systems.4

These
were provisional units, to be formed in
the warning phase
preceding actual mobilisation, from pupils of
the Royal Military School (Koninklijke Militaire School, KMS)
in
Weert, the Special Officer Training Centre (Opleidingscentrum
Officieren
Speciale Diensten,
OCOSD) in Breda and the Royal Military Academy (Koninklijke
Militaire Academie, KMA), also in Breda. Unit strength and
organisation were probably
similar to that of NATRES units, as their role was more or less the same. In
Limburg the platoons would secure the NATO Information and
Communications System (NICS), located in a bunker in Maastricht, as
well as the 'Missiehuis" in Cadier en Keer where NATO's European
traffic control centre would be situated in wartime. Three platoons
would operate under the command of 16 Company Staff NATRES (see Part I, note g).The provisional security units would be disbanded once
the mobilisable security companies were available, after which their personnel would be reassigned through the regular personnel replacement system.6

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1.

The
company was deployed to the Belgian Kwartier Cortemarck
Barracks in Büren during three two-month periods a year, each
period being followed by a two-month period in Breda during which a
unit of 13 (BE) Artillery Group would take over at SAS
Stöckerbusch. In 1985 the company was the only Royal Army unit
permanently assigned to facility security duties in peacetime; more
than
half of each two-month deployment consisted of a demanding
regime of standing guard, patrolling and being on call. Oosterboer, op. cit., 177-180. Bevaart et al., Vijftig
jaar, 119-120. Bremer, op. cit., 28-30. SAS Stöckerbusch was
supervised by 27th (US) Ordnance Company, subordinate
to 59th (US) Ordnance Brigade, headquartered in
Pirmasens (GE),
which brigade was responsible for the US Army's nuclear
weapons in Europe. Hoffenaar,
Van Hoof en De Moor, Vuur
in beweging,
159-160. Website
U.S. Army in Germany, 59th Ordnance Brigade. It is
said that SAS Stöckerbusch stored W31 nuclear warheads for MIM-14
Nike Hercules surface-to-air missile
systems (see for instance website
Zone Interdite, USAr Büren), but
this is not certain. Oosterboer, op. cit., 177.

Hoffenaar en
Schoenmakers, op. cit., 138-139. Stinger platoon:
this was
not a standard organisation type in the Royal Army, the Stingers being
incorporated in the armoured antiaircraft artillery batteries.
The platoon designation suggests a complement of nine Stinger systems.
JOC NORTHAG/TWOATAF had its peacetime location in
Mönchengladbach-Rheindalen (see NATO Command, Northern Army Group).

5.

Wartime location Headquarters AFCENT: Felius, Einde Oefening, 210. In peacetime it was located in Brunssum. Ibid.

6.

HTK
1983-1984, kamerstuknr. 18169 ondernr. 2
(Defensienota 1984-1993), 103. Hoffenaar en
Schoenmakers, loc. cit. Bevaart, Kort maar Krachtig,
88-89. Anonymus, KMS,
OCOSD en NATRES,
27. Platoon and
group commanders would be chosen from OCOSD pupils, as these were
sub-officers and reserve officers; their mobilisation role was part of
their training as of 1985. The platoons would be filled out by KMS
pupils (sub-officers in training), the company staffs
would be formed with KMA pupils (officers in training). Unit strength and
organisation probably similar to NATRES: in
1983-1984 NATRES had adopted the platoon organisation of the
territorial security infantry companies, which indicates a
wish
for a standard unit type for this role. Hoffenaar en Schoenmakers, op.
cit., 119-120, 143. The aforementioned anonymous article notes that
all provisional security platoons would be placed under
command of NATRES company staffs, which seems incorrect given the
apparent presence of provisional company staffs.
Disbandment:
NL-HaNA 2.13.182 inv. nr. 546, Planningsmemorandum verdere uitbreiding
NATRES d.d. 10 juni 1983, Bijlage A d.d. 12 maart 1981. The official order of battle shows these units as peacetime units (as I
have
done above), probably on the assumption that mobilisation would be
timely, in advance of hostilities. They were
scheduled to be disbanded on Telegram A, which was not part of
the mobilisation telegram
sequence. Telegram A would also disband the Hohne
and Langemannshof Barrack Commands,
the Military
Constabulary Detachments at the Netherlands embassies in East Berlin,
Warsaw and Moscow, and the UN Infantry Company in
Lebanon, so we may assume it signalled the breakout of war. NIMH 430, inv. nr. 54 (Slagorde KL stand 1 juli 1985). As actual
personnel strengths are unknown these units are not included in the
total peacetime
strength above.

7.

RIM was
the Dutch acronym for Direct Influx into Mobilisable Units (Rechtstreekse
Instroming in Mobilisabele Eenheden). GRIM was a variant of
this system, meaning "Largely RIM" (Grotendeels
Rechtstreekse Instroming in Mobilisabele Eenheden).
For a survey of the
Royal Army's unit filling and reserve system see Gijsbers, Blik
in de smidse, 2222-2231;Selles,
Personele
vulling;
Berghuijs, Opleiding,
14-23. In English: Isby and Kamps, Armies,
341-343; Sorrell, Je
Maintiendrai, 94-96; Van
Vuren, The
Royal Netherlands Army Today, Military Review April 1982, 23-28.